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Large scale primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) threading the intergalactic medium are observed ubiquitously in the Universe playing a key role in the cosmic evolution. Their origin is still debated constituting a very active field of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We study in a fully kinetic framework the generation of seed magnetic fields through the Weibel instability driven in an initially unmagnetized plasma by a large-scale shear force. We develop an analytical model that describes the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Muni Zhou , Vladimir Zhdankin , Matthew W. Kunz , Nuno F. Loureiro , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

The Weibel instability could be responsible for the generation of magnetic fields in various objects such as gamma-ray bursts, jets from active galactic nuclei, and clusters of galaxies. Using numerical simulations, the development of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yutaka Fujita , Tsunehiko N. Kato , Nobuhiro Okabe

We reexamine generation of the primordial magnetic fields, at temperature $T>80$TeV, by applying a consistent kinetic theory framework which is suitably modified to take the quantum anomaly into account. The modified kinetic equation can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-01 Arun Kumar Pandey , Jitesh R. Bhatt

A primordial magnetic field may be generated during an inflationary period if conformal invariance is broken. We reexamine and generalize previous results about the magnetic field produced by couplings of the form $R^n…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 F. D. Mazzitelli , F. M. Spedalieri

The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields is still a mystery and several scenarios have been proposed so far: among them, primordial phase transitions, structure formation shocks and galactic outflows. In this work we investigate how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serena Bertone , Corina Vogt , Torsten Ensslin

Mechanisms of generation of magnetic fields in the early universe which could seed the present-day large scale galactic magnetic fields, are briefly reviewed. Three possible ways to create large scale magnetic fields are discussed: breaking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 A. D. Dolgov

Miniati and Bell (2011) proposed a mechanism for the generation of magnetic seeds that is based the finite resistivity of the low temperature IGM in the high redshift universe. In this model, cosmic-ray protons generated by the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-20 Francesco Miniati , A. R. Bell

We discuss the inflationary production of magnetic seeds for the galactic dynamo through the photon-graviphoton mixing typical of extended models of local supersymmetry. An analisys of the allowed region in parameter space shows that such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Gasperini

Basically the only existing theories for the creation of a magnetic field B in the Universe are the creation of a seed field of order 10^{-20} G in spiral galaxy which is subsequently supposedly amplified up to the observed 10^{-6} -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Opher , U. F. Wichoski

We study the generation of magnetic field in the primordial plasma of the standard model (SM) particles at temperature $T>80$~TeV much higher than the electroweak scale. It is assumed that there is an excess number of right-handed electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arun Kumar Pandey

Recent laboratory experiments with laser-produced plasmas have observed and studied a number of fundamental physical processes relevant to magnetized astrophysical plasmas, including magnetic reconnection, collisionless shocks, and magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 W. Fox , J. Matteucci , C. Moissard , D. B. Schaeffer , A. Bhattacharjee , K. Germaschewski , S. X. Hu

The generation of primordial magnetic seed fields during inflation is studied in a theory derived from the one-loop vacuum polarization effective action of the photon in a curved background. This includes terms which couple the curvature to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Kerstin E. Kunze

We investigate the generation of seed magnetic field through the Chern-Simons coupling between the U(1) gauge field and an axion field that commences to oscillate at various epoch, depending on the mass scale. We address axions which begin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Teerthal Patel , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Yuko Urakawa

We investigate seed magnetic field generation in the early universe by radiation force of first stars. In the previous study with steady assumption, large amplitudes(10^{-15} G for first stars, 10^{-11}G for QSOs) are predicted. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Masashi Ando , Kentaro Doi , Hajime Susa

The galactic magnetic field is commonly supposed to be due to a dynamo acting on some large scale seed field. A major difficulty with this idea is that estimates of reasonable seed field strengths tend to be quite low, on the order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ethan T. Vishniac

The origin of large scale cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery, despite the continuous efforts devoted to that problem. We present a new model of magnetic field generation, based on local charge separation provided by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Mathieu Langer , Jean-Loup Puget , Nabila Aghanim

The Biermann Battery effect is frequently invoked in cosmic magnetogenesis and studied in High-Energy Density laboratory physics experiments. Generation of magnetic fields by the Biermann effect due to mis-aligned density and temperature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Carlo Graziani , Petros Tzeferacos , Dongwook Lee , Donald Q. Lamb , Klaus Weide , Milad Fatenejad , Joshua Miller

We describe the generation of the electric current flowing along the external magnetic field in the system of massive charged fermions, possessing anomalous magnetic moments and electroweakly interacting with background matter. This current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-07 Maxim Dvornikov

A new magnetic field generation mechanism in electrostatic shocks is found, which can produce fields with magnetic energy density as high as 0.01 of the kinetic energy density of the flows on time scales $ \tilde \, 10^4 \,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Stockem , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva